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hospital
Ransomware gangs go after EMEA healthcare’s supply chain

A ransomware attack against a hospital makes headlines, while attacks on the rest of the ecosystem around it tend to stay quiet despite doing damage that can be just as bad. …

phishing
The best-funded companies open the most phishing attachments

An employee gets an email dressed as a password reset. She clicks the link, types her credentials into a page built to copy her company’s login screen, and moves on with …

ransomware
Ransomware in 2026: More groups, more victims, no slowdown

Ransomware activity followed a recognizable pattern during the previous four years. Each year was defined by a dominant actor, its collapse, or a major supply chain incident. …

code
The AI code vulnerabilities that grow with your app

Theori built 28 apps with AI coding agents and scanned each one through its pentesting platform. Five models did the building, split between Anthropic and OpenAI, across apps …

vulnerability
Security teams keep finding critical flaws after scheduled testing ends

Enterprise environments change between scheduled security assessments, leaving organizations with periods where new vulnerabilities can go undetected. Synack’s State of …

deepfake
AI can’t fix cybersecurity’s hiring problem

Organizations are redefining cybersecurity roles through workforce frameworks and placing greater emphasis on verified skills as AI and new regulatory requirements change …

AI
Cloud operations become the next big role for agentic AI

Companies are using agentic AI to manage growing application environments, automate routine tasks, and support decisions. Business and IT leaders increasingly see the …

AI
AI agents are still logging in as humans

Most large companies run more than one AI platform at the same time. Developers pull up coding assistants, marketing teams lean on writing tools, and analysts query enterprise …

Windows 10
The Windows 10 hangover is becoming a security problem

Windows 11 now runs on 78.8% of Windows devices after Microsoft ended support for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025, according to Lansweeper. Windows 10 still accounts for 16.9% …

AI
Nearly half of open-source AI projects never reach production

Open models are moving into production across more organizations, and the work of securing those deployments increasingly extends beyond the model weights. Mozilla’s The State …

ransomware
Ransom demands are down, email is the top way attackers get in

An employee opens an email that looks like any other, clicks a link, and gives up a password without noticing. A stolen login opens a door deeper in the network. Files stop …

monitor
Companies keep getting breached by vulnerabilities they already knew about

Scanning tools have gotten good at their work. Organizations now find more weaknesses across more of their systems than at any earlier point in the industry’s history. A …

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